MICHAEL POLINKO, 49 YEARS OLD, DIRECTOR OF QUALITY

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http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/people/robinson/Images/robinson4-3-25s.jpg

Not this guy, is it? (xpost) My wife had his class. He was a cool guy. I think he's very slightly moderately known in the art world though.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh wait, sorry - bizarre brainfart. You said photography. That dude was painting.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Some pickup artists in the community write up "Field Reports" ("FRs") and "Lay Reports" ("LRs") detailing their experiences with women which they share on Internet forums for constructive criticism, or to serve as examples for others.[17]. Others, notably Mystery[18] and Stevie PUA[19] have released 'sarge' audio of themselves 'sarging' in the field as a model to others. Some audio has included 'full closes' (i.e. sex).

― false cat (sleep), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

these dudes are seriously crepey

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not objectification and reduction of women to prizes to be won, it's SELF-HELP!

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - Professor Dude was a ringer for "I turned 40 and started working out 12 hours a day" guy at the top.

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the point of bowflex is that you only work out 12 MINUTES a day!

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I can only begin to imagine how underwhelming sex with a "pickup artist" would be.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

oh god I bet they flex during it.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonster), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

You must stand up for yourself, and love yourself (as well as women),
while at the same time not being afraid to call bullshit from women
(or men spewing bullshit on behalf of women) openly, publicly and
for what it is, particularly in this day and age, and in particular
in English speaking western countries (ie. the UK, the USA,
Canada..etc). This would include a lot of the “politically correct”
nonsense sexual 'harrassment' bullshit, fake rape...yada yada..
circulating around college campuses, office/workplaces..etc. today.
Because guess what. .Girls want attention and nice dinners, just as
guys like sex, and hot looking women. Both are OK, totally normal,
and it is * NOT* OK for women to openly want and demand what they
want, yet then try to deny or restrict the man what he wants as he
goes about his life in society. When a chick attempts this on a PUA,
that is the express ticket to the evening by herself. That is a fact
of life in the real world, and it is something the “me” generation
had better start getting used to again.

Because it is just as much sexual harassment to * ME * to have to see
an overweight fatty food loving 300 lb co-worker waddling down the
aisle at the office, as it is for her to see my picture of Claudia
Schiffer hanging on my wall. I am JUST AS OFFENDED AND REPULSED to
have to see her (all of 300 lbs of her!), as she is to have to see
my picture.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy shit.

― David RER (Frank Fiore), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

these guys need to be shot with balls of their own shit

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

dear fucking god. these guys need to have their balls stitched to their thighs (haha x-post)

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

"And this guy," he adds, nodding his shaved head in the direction of a man hunched over on the bench in the middle of the room, "he's blown it already -- he is looking lonely and lost. I would talk to those women standing next to him, as a group. Just go up and ask them a question -- but not the one they're expecting. 'Who lies more -- men or women?' Always smile, and always keep your energy level slightly higher than the group you're approaching."

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

billionaire this type:
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/WINDOWS/JOBS/Steve.jpg

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Walk up grinning like Corky and throw out an obvious line - chix dig it!

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

To be fair, the above quote was from here: http://www.pickupguide.com/ not Neil Strauss.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Every time I read about the seduction artists, it reminds me of the Toronto poker club that got posted to ILX at some point, where all the nerds thought they were co-starring in Swinger.s

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

neil strauss - when music writers go bad!

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sorry, still laughing at

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

Yep - It's me. Shaved my head....still playing in a rock band called TORQUE

TORQUE, mutherfuckers! it's got ZAZZ! He does the jazz hands whenever he says it!

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

there was a great seduction artist episode of csi miami.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm kind of vaguley curious about the "sarge" audio referred to above b/c it sounds like it could be teh omgwtf/funney or good for looping & embedding in threads for lulz, but I suspect in actuality it's really grim, boring and depressing to listen to.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

TORQUE is a great name for a bad band. It suggests either badn foursquare hard rock or even worse directionless noodly fusion. You can imagine a guy playing one of those multi-thousand dollar prs special edition guitars in a band called TORQUE.

― Norman Phay (Pashmina), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://cdn.soundclick.com/04/images/t/band/torque.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.torquerock.co.uk/images/book290.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

neil strauss - when music writers go bad!

when was he a good music writer?

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

TORQUE wears jewelry hand made from engine components.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Because guess what. .Girls want attention and nice dinners, just as
guys like sex, and hot looking women.

hahaha I love "Because guess what." as a sentence.

― has been plagued with problems since its erection in 1978 (nklshs), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ps anyone who can find the webpage of those Toronto poker nerds will be my hero.

― milo (milo), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

when was he a good music writer?

The Dirt is nonstop roffles

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

oh except the vehicular manslaughter bit. I stopped roffling during that.

― dmr (dmr), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

what does it have to do with music?

― nuneb (nuneb), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

otm

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

he just wrote something that i don't hate!

anyone else read the piece on paul nelson by neil strauss in the current RS?

he is a capable journalist when he wants to be and when it isn't about him. i mean, i read his stuff years ago and never got the idea he was a major-league sleaze or anything. his nerd anger fire was in check. i don't know what happened to him. he lost his mind.

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I worked w/Neil as an editor 10 yrs ago, before he went all LA. typical nerdy music geek dude, albeit with ambition to burn. he picked my brain/learned what he could and moved on. whatves.

somehow this polinko guy makes me feel better about turning 49!

― m coleman (lovebug ), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, he's in a rock band.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link

The thing that bugs me most about him is how he's like "life's sweet, I'm all buff, I even play guitar in a rock band." YOU PLAY BASS, DICKFACE.

― the pony-poop paradox (the pony-poop paradox), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

NB there is nothing wrong with playing bass, which is exactly why you shouldn't be some giant dicktard and try to fool casual observers into thinking you play lead or something.

― the pony-poop paradox (the pony-poop paradox), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Bass-playing is in fact more manful. But he's obviously trying to fool the casual, non-music-loving bowflex buyer.

― Not For Use as Infant Nog (A-Ron Hubbard), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Five strings ain't manful.

― PPlains (PPlains), Friday, 29 December 2006 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Have you guys ever seen the lady version of the Michael Polinko commercial? With the 50 YO "MILF" with the enormous fake breasts and a "Bowflex Body"? I like to think that she is the former Mrs. Polinko and when "Mickey" had his midlife crisis and joined his Irish pub cover band and bought a car and a bowflex and left her to go try to pathetically pick up on women half his age at the beach (as depicted in the ad), she also bought a Bowflex and some boobs and her ad is an answer, kind of like YouTube holla backs.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Having to put "MILF" in quotes like that reminds me of Pete S. and his "MIF" v "MILF" distinction which I think is very pertinent here.

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I like that the woman who I imagine is his ex-wife has a Bowflex AND a cabana boy, I mean that is living the dream no matter what your sex is, screw playing "guitar" in a "rock band".

― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Saturday, 30 December 2006 04:14 (seventeen years ago) link

oh perfect, they make PRS guitars AND basses

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Saturday, 30 December 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

so this is about tv.....

― jw (ex machina), Sunday, 31 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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